us media revealed that ukrainian casualties have reached nearly 500,000, and zelensky refuted it: fake news
2024-09-23
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according to reports from the russia today (rt) website and the ukrainian interfax news agency on the 22nd, ukrainian president zelensky refuted the wall street journal's report on the number of casualties of the ukrainian army, calling it fake news.
ukrainian president zelensky photo source: visual china
the wall street journal reported on the 17th, citing people familiar with the matter, that "a confidential ukrainian estimate" conducted earlier this year showed that 80,000 ukrainian soldiers were killed and 400,000 were injured during the russian-ukrainian conflict. in comments to reporters on the 20th, ukrainian president zelensky said: "80,000? that's a lie. the real number is much lower than what is reported. much lower."
rt reported that although the ukrainian government did not regularly release the latest information on ukrainian casualties, ukrainian commanders and ordinary soldiers admitted that they had suffered heavy losses on the battlefield. in february this year, zelensky said that 31,000 ukrainian soldiers had died in the conflict, but did not mention the number of injured. in april, the washington post quoted an unnamed ukrainian lawmaker as saying that zelensky "greatly downplayed" the death toll in order to maintain morale during ukraine's military mobilization. since then, ukraine has amended its conscription law to expand the scope of male citizens who should be conscripted.
rt mentioned that the wall street journal reported that the ukrainian army had lost 480,000 casualties, which is roughly consistent with the estimates provided by russia earlier. russia said in april that the ukrainian army had lost about 500,000 soldiers. the russian ministry of defense said that since the cross-border attack on russia's kursk oblast began in august, the ukrainian army has lost more than 15,650 soldiers.
the report said that russia did not disclose the number of russian casualties. however, russian president vladimir putin said in june that the ratio of russian and ukrainian losses on the battlefield was "1 to 5". he had previously said that the west was ready to "fight to the last ukrainian" and use ukraine as a tool for a proxy war against russia.# hundreds of reviews#
